1- Define words:
Rouse: To bring something out of sleep. Make angry, or excited
Fatuous: Something that is foolish, or pointless
2- Simplified:
3- Language Effects: Personifications, “Think how it wakes the seed”, this personifies the seed and the sun, which “wakes the seed”, and “to break earth’s sleep”, personifying the earth, as it sleeps.
4- Context of the Poem: The author, Wilfred Owen, was in the war for four months, and fighting on the frontlines for 5 weeks, in France 1917. He was exposed to the brutalities or war, such as the harsh conditions, and constant fire, leading him to get shell shock. Whilst in the hospital, he met Siegfried Sassoon, who influenced him to write poems. Owen was killed on 4th November 1918, in a attempt to get his men across the Sambre Canal.
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